Artist Statement With ‘Clamorworks’, I’ll be displaying a collection of amplified, acoustic and electromechanical pieces developed after I moved from the Midwest to California in 2012. Many of these pieces explore new methods of instrument performance, such as utilizing repetitive whole-body movements or mirroring everyday actions such as cooking or exercising. My objective is to […]
Taro Hattori: Dragging the Right Chord
Artist Statement “Dragging the Right Chord” is a functioning harpsichord made of corrugated cardboard and installed on a bicycle trailer. I have been thinking about how singing allows us survive through a difficult time. When our egocentric desire hypertrophies and suppressed our sense of beauty into a piece of dust, wisdom from the past once […]
Errism: Qubais Reed Ghazala
Errism: Qubais Reed Ghazala Artist Statement My work often involves reclamation. In the example of circuit-bending this process is obvious: electronics headed for the landfill are reclaimed, reassessed and re-purposed. Rebuilt. Trash becomes instrument; silence becomes sound. Much of my photography, though not as obviously, involves the same. With a lens I collect these lost […]
Atrium Display: Still Movie – Film Frames by David Michalak
Atrium Display: Still Movie – Film Frames by David Michalak Face of A Stranger (1977) is a restored feature film by San Francisco filmmaker and musician David Michalak. Prints of selected film frames are on exhibit at Center for New Music, corresponding with a special screening of the film and musical performance on Wednesday, October 23rd. […]
Atrium Display: Skatchplatters by Tom Nunn and Sudhu Tewari
Atrium Display: Skatchplatters by Tom Nunn and Sudhu Tewari Artist Statment Skatchplatters (12” diameter), Skatchwheels (22” diameter) and Giant Skatchwheels (33” diameter) are circular cardboard plates onto which are glued various “devices” arranged in a 32-segment array. The devices include thin dowel, coffee stirrer sticks, bronze brazing rod, metal washers and non-skid self-adhesive surface material. […]
Guillermo Galindo: Cyber-totemic Objects and Sonic Mediators
Cyber-totemic Objects and Sonic Mediators Artist Statement Around 2005 after I finished my orchestral work Trade Routes commissioned and premiered by the Oakland Symphony orchestra I started reimagining concepts behind the late 20th century music of composers such as John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as being inspired by artists Tarsila do Amaral, Enrique Chagoya and Alejandro Jodorowsky, […]
Atrium Display, Roxanne Nesbitt: Symbiotic Instruments
Atrium Display, Roxanne Nesbitt: Symbiotic Instruments For my on-going project Symbiotic Instruments, I design and make sounding objects to expand the sound palette of traditional instruments. I have explored stretching strings over drums with percussive handmade bridges, and ceramic instruments played inside the grand piano. The ceramics alter the sound of the piano by muting […]
Atrium Display, Musicians Make: Comic Strips
Atrium Display, Musicians Make: Comic Strips Polymaths are often musicians and the talents and proclivities that make for great musicians quite often make for brilliant artists, engineers, mathematicians, activists, chefs, philosophers, poets, painters, cosmologists and gardeners. Society seeks to simplify and pigeonhole these geniuses and so too often their broader gifts are considered tangential rather […]
Johannes Bergmark: How Do You Invent Something?
Johannes Bergmark: How Do You Invent Something? Artist Statement Meeting Hal Rammel in Chicago in 1987 was the decisive moment for me to open my eyes for experimental musical instrument (EMI) building, through his beautiful and imaginative work, generous friendship and the collaborations that we did. He also let me know about the inspiring network of […]
Atrium Display: Graphic Scores/Spores by Alan Courtis
Atrium Display: Graphic Scores/Spores by Alan Courtis This exhibition shows for the first time in USA graphic scores by Argentine composer Alan Courtis. It consists in a selection of graphic and conceptual pieces employing diverse techniques and strategies helping to connect the graphic and sound universes. Some of these scores work defining precise interpretation […]